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Twitter: How $1,000 Invested in Tech Can Pay Off

11/8/2013 12:26AM

With Twitter's gangbusters IPO on Thursday, how much money could you have made with $1,000 if you got in at the starting price? What other tech IPO's have paid off handsomely? How handsomely? WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer. Image: Associated Press

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I ... the story about this piece today ... is going to do for most of you ... Twitter had a wildly good first day on the New York Stock Exchange saw closings pushed it trading at around forty five dollars or nearly seventy three percent above its IPO price ... of course the IPO price was only available to institutional investors others lucky enough to get stock before the public debut ... that said it would apply to woo should occur again ... what you have to invest in a thousand dollars at the IPO price ... of two America's hottest tech stocks ... how much money would you have an app store which Twitter that a thousand bucks you could've had a twenty six dollars ... would now be worth around seventeen hundred dollars ... Facebook in mid two thousand twelve of the top Gore and other social network is opening day ... you would ... like where you are now an investment worth just under ... two hundred dollars ... LinkedIn's IPO was in two thousand eleven but that you have ... quintupled your money ... Google that thousand dollars is close to two thousand Ford to over ... twelve thousand dollars ... Don who went public backlash and sixty nine have ... sixty one ... thousand dollars Yahoo indeed ... they could have sixty nine ... thousand dollars ... but at a time machine to please take it would be ninety nine seven ... thousand dollars on Amazon dot com ... and now have two hundred and thirty nine thousand dollars ... so that mean you better hurry up and drop a thousand bucks on Twitter wealthy investors are all convinced is sure that that's for sure ... the company has yet to turn a profit is investing heavily still in technology ... the company bought it around a half billion dollars in revenue in the past twelve months ... at the end of this first day of trading the company now has a market value ... of around thirty billion dollars ... shares of the revenue from other brand name companies like Best Buy Macy's Netflix and Delta ... compared to Twitter ... analysts are divided on how much and how fast Twitter will grow ... don't stir too much if you missed out on these big winners in ... Ithaca for a thousand bucks on Zynga two years ago ... now all you have is about three hundred fifty dollars has the Short Answer ...